Railway car



Aug. 8, 1933 E. R SWANSON I RAILWAY CAR Filed June 3, 1929 Patented Aug. 8, 1933 RAILWAY CAR Earl R. Swanson, Chicago, 111., assignor to Chicago-Cleveland Car Roofing Company,

Chicago, ill, a Corporation of Delaware Application June 3, 1929. Serial No. 368,025

2 Claims.

My invention relates to railway cars and more particularly to a load lifting device adapted to be associated with the roof structure. A principal object of the invention is to provide means a disposed adjacent the point of connection of the carlines and side plates of the roof structure for receiving a rope, chain or other hoist device to assist in the loading and unloading of automobiles and the like.

A primary feature of the invention consists in providing a car roof structure involving side plates and carlines with load lifting means disposed adjacent the point of connection of the side plates and carline, said means involving a 15 bent metal rod rigidly secured toadjoining parts of the roof structure.

A further feature of the invention is to provide the load lifting means, which is secured to the car structure adjacent the point of connection of the carlines and side plates, with an aperture, the axis of which extends at an oblique angle to the side of the car.

A still further feature of the invention resides I r in fashioning the load lifting means from a rod bent to form an eye, the opposite ends of which are rigidly secured to adjoining parts of the roof structure.

Other and more specific features of the invention residing in advantageous forms and combinations and relations of parts will hereinafter appear and be pointed out in the claims.

In the drawing illustrating preferred embodiments of the invention:

Figure 1 isa diagrammatic transverse sectional view of a car roof embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged detailed transverse sectional view adjacent a side edge of the roof.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on line 3-3, Figure 2, the roof sheets and asso-. ciated seam cap being omitted.

Figure 4 is a View corresponding to Figure 2 illustrating a modified form of the invention.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on line 5-5, Figure 4, the roof sheets and associated seam cap being omitted.

Referring more particularly to the drawing 1 indicates the side plates of the car which may advantageously be of Z-shape having opposite projecting substantially vertical flanges 2 and 3 connected by a horizontal web 4. Extending from one side of the car to the other are carlines 5 which are preferably connected to the side plates through the intermediacy of angle brackets 6. Each of the carlines is of inverted channel shape having a web 7 and downwardly extending sides 8 which respectively terminate in laterally projecting base flanges 9. At the ends of the carlines their base flanges are disposed in substan P tially horizontal planes and are secured by rivets 10 in overlapping relation to the inwardly projecting flanges ll, of the carline brackets 6. The other flange 12 of each of the carline brackets is attached by rivets 13 to the outer face of the upwardly projecting flange 2 of the adjoining side plate. The load lifting device illustrated in the present embodiment of the invention as being fashioned from rods or bars of metal 14, are re-- spectively rigidly attached to the roof structure adjacent the point of attachment of the carlines and side plates. It will,- of course, be appreciated that any number of these load lifting devices may be employed. In the form of the invention illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 each rod or bar is bent to form an eye and its opposite ends are shaped to form pads or laterally projecting portions 15 which respectively extend in opposite directions. These portions 15 are apertured to receive rivets 16 for attaching them to the underside of the web '7 of the associated carline. The axis of the eye formed by the rod is disposed at an angle to the side of the car and preferably parallel to the portion of the web' 7 of the carline to which the bar is attached so that the major portion of the device will extend approximately in the same direction as the line of action of the force which will be imparted to the load to be lifted. By attaching the load J lifting device to the web of the carline, which. is under compression, it will be appreciated that the carline is not weakened to the same extent as it would be should the lifting device be attached. to portions of the carline under tension, namely, its lateral base flanges. It is particularly desirable to secure the load lifting device as near as possible to the carline brackets so that forces to which the device is subjected will not have to pass through a considerable portion of the carline before eing transmitted to the side structure of the roof. Thus bending moments which would otherwise be set up in the carline are reduced to a minimum.

The load lifting device illustrated in Figures and 5 is formed in a manner similar to that. of the one illustrated in Figures 2 and 3. It is formed from a rod or bar of metal 17 bent to form an eye or aperture, the opposite ends of the bar being shaped to provide pads or laterally projecting portions 18 adapted to be secured to adjoining parts of the roof structure. Instead of attaching both of the pads 18 to the web of the carline only one is secured thereto, the other being secured in overlapping relation to the inwardly projecting flange 11 of the carline bracket 6 intermediate the downwardly extending sides 8 of the carline. The pads 18 are respectively secured to the web of the carline and r I claim:

1. In a railway car, the combination with side plates, of carlines, brackets connecting the side plates and carlines, and load lifting means involving a member rigidly secured to one of said carline brackets and an adjacent portion of the associated carline.

2. In a railway car, the combination with side plates, of carlines, brackets respectively connecting the carlines and side plates, and load lifting means disposed adjacent said carline brackets, each of said means involving a bent rod, one end of which is secured to'a carline bracket and the other end to an adjacent portion of the associated carline.

EARL R. SWANSON. 

